Noun type: 11
Characteristics
Singular
| Nominative | ahava |
| Partitive | ahavaa |
| Genetive | ahavan |
| Accusative | ahavan |
| Inessive | ahavassa |
| Elative | ahavasta |
| Illative | ahavaan |
| Adessive | ahavalla |
| Ablative | ahavalta |
| Allative | ahavalle |
| Essive | ahavana |
| Translative | ahavaksi |
| Abessive | ahavatta |
Plural
| Nominative | ahavat |
| Partitive | ahavia; ahavoita; ahavoja |
| Genetive | ahavien; ahavoiden; ahavoitten |
| Accusative | ahavat |
| Inessive | ahavissa |
| Elative | ahavista |
| Illative | ahaviin; ahavoihin |
| Adessive | ahavilla |
| Ablative | ahavilta |
| Allative | ahaville |
| Essive | ahavina |
| Translative | ahaviksi |
| Abessive | ahavitta |
| Instructive | ahavain |
| Comitative | ahavaine |
Sample Sentences
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *ahava (compare dialectal Estonian ahav, Karelian ahava, Votic ahavõ, Veps ahau), of unknown further origin. Appears to be analyzable as containing the adjectival/participle suffix -va, but no root word *aha is known. First attested in Daniel Juslenius: Suomalaisen Sana-Lugun Coetus ("Attempt at Listing Finnish Words", 1745).
Nouns inflected like ahava
ahava,
algebra,
apaja,
hapera,
harava,
hatara,
hattara,
hekuma,
hutera,
itara,
jellona,
judoka,
kihara,
kiverä,
korona,
käkkärä,
käpälä,
kärhämä,
lattana,
leukoija, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)